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Nice to see more federate options. I switched over to BookWyrm over on the ActivityPub (Mastodon, PixelFed, Friendica) side of the fediverse for the same reason. And it is self hostable, but I chose to just join an instance. joinbookwyrm.com

I have long loathed GoodReads so haven’t bothered using it in years, but @bookhive.buzz has got me using a reading list app again. Here’s my Bookhive profile: bookhive.buzz/profile/fain...

What do I mean when I say @bookhive.buzz runs on AT Proto? You can use your existing Bluesky account to log into it (no need to create another account), and then you can access a Good Reads-like social platform where you can easily find your existing Bluesky mutuals.

Oh neat, it also works with my Northsky account!

A lot of people and orgs are building cool stuff like this on AT Proto, in fact.

Curious if you're using the web frontends separately or have some consolidated AT client you like?

I used to read so much more than I do now. It is hard to recreationally read when there is so much to read for work. I can also blame GRRM too, right?

After the last one, I'm not sure I even want the next one (But the truth is I do, and it's not coming ☹️) www.reddit.com/r/freefolk/c...

I started using StoryGraph in 2023 or so, which I add to intermittently. I've not used Bookhive... is this the part where you point to some scandal with StoryGraph that has escaped my notice?

I will have a look at this. Thank you. I'd like to recommend Storygraph. Really good app, strong but simple review system, and its recommendations are very useful (as opposed to Good Reads' marketing preferences). It's also independent. I don't think it's linked to BlueSky though.

The good thing is that, at least moving from StoryGraph to BookHive is possible anytime bookhive.buzz/import